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HANSARD Middle East UpdateLet me restate the British Government’s position in relation to the west bank and the Gaza strip: we hope that both those territories will be a vital part of a single Palestinian…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateThat was a very powerful intervention. I will not linger long in the answer, other than to say that I hear the right hon. Gentleman’s words and feel their force. I will of course…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateAs the House knows, I will not make a determination from this Dispatch Box on questions of law. We assess risk. I can confirm that those assessments are ongoing and that a…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateForcible movement of the Gazan population out of Gaza would be forcible displacement, and that is a clear concept in international law.06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateWe are clear about the principles of international law that apply. As I said to the right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel), on Friday we appeared at the International Court of…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateMy hon. Friend has a deep commitment to these issues; he raises them here and elsewhere often. Let me be clear: any attempt to annex land in Gaza would be unacceptable.…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateAs the right hon. Gentleman will know, we hope to avoid having to deal with that hypothetical, and we will seek to persuade the Israeli Government not to embark on a path so…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for her important question. Clearly the rhetoric of some Israeli Government Ministers has crossed a threshold after which we would all condemn them—the…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for his question—I know of his long personal commitment to those so badly affected by this conflict. I join him in condemnation of the Houthi attack. The…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateThe right hon. Gentleman, perhaps unsurprisingly, goes for rhetoric, and he wants me to opine on questions of law and make determinations that Ministers, for a long time, have…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateThe right hon. Gentleman talks powerfully, and the scenes in Gaza are visible to us all. He asks questions about tactics and strategy, and the right strategy must be over the next…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his important question. Of course the conflict affects not just Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories but many of its neighbours,…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI recognise the passion in my hon. Friend’s voice, and as he knows, it is not just at this Dispatch Box that we have set out our views. He asks for widespread sanctions. Of…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateMy hon. Friend rightly highlights the importance of the humanitarian principles she outlines. Those are important principles not just in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI thank the right hon. Gentleman and my constituency neighbour for his commitment to these issues. The problems the Palestinian people face at this moment are acute, immediate and…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI thank my hon. Friend for her important questions. I have set out at the Dispatch Box the steps we have taken, whether it is in relation to sanctions, arms or goods, and I will…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI know the strength of feeling of my hon. Friend and of so many Members on the Benches behind me and, indeed, across the House. It is obviously a source of great anguish to me and…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateI thank the right hon. Lady for her important questions. I take the opportunity to respond to her important questions about the attack on Ben Gurion airport. I absolutely condemn…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateThe hon. Lady asks a series of important questions. I sought in my statement to focus very clearly on what has been announced by the Israeli Government, including by Prime…06 May 2025HANSARD Middle East UpdateThe hon. Lady is right to press on the absolutely vital importance of aid getting into Gaza. Those are points that we make regularly and with force to the Israeli Government. Part…06 May 2025